ACORN Busted, De-funded

I'm sure you're all familiar with the recent undercover video exposé of ACORN carried out by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles in Baltimore, DC, and New York. If you're not, don't feel bad, because for some inexplicable reason the MSM has yet to catch on to this story (actually, it's very much explicable, sadly enough). I've posted video from the Baltimore setup below for your viewing pleasure, and you can view the videos from the DC and NY ops by following the above links to Andrew Breitbart's new website, Big Government. This is what O'Keefe had to say regarding his motivation for carrying these investigations (which, I would like to point out, were effectuated by a private citizen, and not by any news or government agency...I guess we are our own watchdogs, now).

A famous community organizer once said, “The only way to upset the power structure in your communities is to goad them, confuse them, irritate them and, most of all, make them live by their own rules. If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them.” Impossible demands can irritate modern leftists in ways nothing else can, whether it’s by banning Lucky Charms cereal because it’s racist against Irish people, calling Planned Parenthood saying you want to donate money for black abortions in the name of Margaret Sanger, or making Sen. Snowe sign an oversized bailout check for a billion dollars to Amtrak, in her own office.

The scenario we posed the ACORN Housing employees in Baltimore is due to the application of similar power tactics. We gave ACORN a taste of its own medicine. ACORN was alleged to be thug-like, criminal, and nefarious. This criminal behavior was evidenced by a video of Baltimore ACORN community organizers breaking the locks on foreclosed homes. Instead of railing against their radicalism, it is best to bring out this type of radicalism. Hannah Giles and I took advantage of ACORN’s regard for thug criminality by posing the most ridiculous criminal scenario we could think of and seeing if they would comply–which they did without hesitation.

Additionally, instead of focusing on foreclosure itself, which has become seemingly as politicized as abortion, we focused on crimes more difficult for the left to defend: trafficking of young helpless girls and tax evasion. The first group represents the severely disadvantaged, the second a threat to the distribution of wealth.

While manipulation or entrapment occurs when people are encouraged to do things they otherwise wouldn’t, the pre-set trap is their own. These tactics allow the viewer to see ACORN’s soul; their playing field and their morality, out in the open. Their system is based on conflict and change for its own sake. This system is based on totalitarian principles and class war techniques. These people understand pressure, power and self-interest. When the Baltimore employees saw we were shady dealers, their instincts clicked in, as we were prime recruits.

ACORN has ascended. They elect our politicians and receive billions in tax money. Their world is a revolutionary, socialistic, atheistic world, where all means are justifiable. And they create chaos, again, for it’s own sake. It is time for us to be studying and applying their tactics, many of which are ideologically neutral. It is time, as Hannah said as we walked out of the ACORN facility, for conservative activists to “create chaos for glory.”

NOTE: In light of these latest controversies the House has voted overwhelmingly (83-7) to strip ACORN of all federal funding (they have already been banned from participating in the census). The amendment still has to pass the Senate, though, but even Pelosi may be forced to allow it to come to the floor.